Recyclers’ building recycled

Updated November 7 2012 - 1:34am, first published January 13 2009 - 10:18am
Deb Piccolo looks over the site.
Deb Piccolo looks over the site.

LOCAL archaeologists will sift through at a site in Bendigo’s CBD after demolition of two buildings finishes.Parts of the old Renovator’s Warehouse building in Forest Street date back to the 1850s and local history diggers hope to find evidence of the area’s history once the structure has been cleared away.They were on site yesterday to see the progress being made on the building, once a Pentecostal church, as a crane removed 90-year-old oregon trusses from the roof.“Anything people discarded that they thought was of no use is really interesting and important to us today to see how people lived,” Deb Piccolo of Accurate Demolitions said.She said the building was used as three residences before becoming a church and it was likely remnants could include such as glassware and pottery.Accurate Demolitions is dismantling the building, and the adjacent Richmond Sinnott & Delahunty accountants’ offices, to make way for new offices.Demolitions owner Dean Ashworth said most of the buildings would be salvaged.“About 85 per cent can be salvaged and recycled, which is good,” he said.“It’s been a church, a mechanic’s and at the end of its life the Renovator’s Warehouse. So it ended its life recycling goods and will now itself be recycled.”

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